Professor Michelle Brown

Michelle P. Brown FSA was until 2012 Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies, School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London. She was Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts, British Library (1986-2004), and specialises in cultural & book history.

Media appearances include Time Team, In Our Time, Christianity: a history and Secrets of the Saxon Gold. Extensive publications include studies of the Lindisfarne Gospels, Luttrell Psalter and Holkham Bible and of Insular art and culture and the transition from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Exhibitions include ‘The World of the Lindisfarne Gospels’ (BL) and ‘In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000’ (Smithsonian). She is Professor Emerita at SAS and Visiting Professor at University College London and Baylor and is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oslo.